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BETWEEN WINCHESTER AND LONDON. Where did the highway run in the fourteenth century between Winchester and London, and what was the position with regard to it of Farnham Castle, Waverley Abbey, and Chertsey ? W. LANCELOT Fox.

SCOTT'S ' ROB ROY.' I should be grateful for any information on the following points in this book :

1. ' The Fontarabian Fair' I have a vague idea that wives could be bought or sold there. Chap. ii.

2. "Prince Prettyman, now a prince and now a fisher's son." Chap. iii.

3. Wat the Devil. Chap. iv.

4. The " fairy tale where the man finds all the money which he had carried to market suddenly changed into pieces of slate." Chap. vi.

5. The Duke of Newcastle's martingale. Chap. x.

6. " The poor girl in the fairy tale who was betrothed in her cradle to the Black Bear of Norway." Chap. xiii.

I should also be glad to have the source of the following quotations :

1. " Sterling honesty, tho' clad in rags." Chap. iv.

2. " The clamour much of men and dogs." Chap. v.

3. " He that gallops his horse on Blackstone edge May chance to catch a fall." Chap. vii.

4. " O, in Shipton-in-Craven

Is never a haven,

But many a day foul weather," &c.

Chap. viii.

5. "Good people all, I pray give ear,

A woful story you shall hear, 'Tisofarobber,"&c.-/7>.

6. " She show'd him the way, she show'd him

the way, She show'd him the way to woo." Ib.

7. " Amiddes the route you might discern one Brave knight, with pipes on shield, ycleped

Vernon," &c. Chap, x.

8. "Whose ministers 'set their sandall'd feet

on princes.' "Chap. xi.

9. "Jenny lass ! I think I hae her," c.

Chap, xviii.

10. " No truth in plaids, no faith in tartan trews," &c. Chap, xxxii,

11. " Brent brow and lily skin,

A loving heart and a leal within, Is better than gowd or gentle kin."

Chap, xxx vi.

12. " The kiln's on fire she's a' in a lowe."

Chap, xxx vii.

13. "And let her health go round, around, around," &c. Ib.

[This is not, as Scott says, in Shad well's ' Bury Fair.']

14. "drowning his sounding steps amid the din of general war." Introd.

C. B. WHEELER.

WIFE OF ADMIRAL BUTTERFIELD. In connexion with a family pedigree I desire information regarding the parentage and first wife of Admiral William Butterfield, who was born in 1767, and died at Ports- mouth in 1842. His second wife was Eliza- beth, daughter of Charles Harris, Deputy Auditor of the Impress of Chelsea Hospital. Can any of your readers direct me to any source where I may get the desired informa- tion ? J. B. DOUGLAS.

COWLARD. I have looked through many directories without success in search of this name, which occurs on the cover of a book in my possession dated 1708 John Cow- lard. Is the name borne by any family at the present day ? E.G. HOLMAN.

' GUY'S PORRIDGE POT,' LONDON, 1808. Can any reader kindly tell me who was the author of this poem, in which Dr. Samuel Parr is satirized ? A. C. C.

MILITARY MACHINES.

(US. ix. 430.)

IN T. W, J. Connolly's ' History of the Royal Sappers and Miners,' second edition, 1857, there is a passage which will, I think, assist in answering L. L. K.'s question :

" When it was decided the army was to winter in the Crimea, no delay occurred in obtaining wood for housing the troops. Bell tents were considered unsuited to a region subject to heavy storms of rain and snow and high freezing winds. Accordingly on 9 Nov., 1854, Lieut. De Vere and four sappers were sent to Sinope to procure boards and scantling for huts. Timber grew in abund- ance along the shores of the Black Sea, and quantities of it were shipped for Balaklava. As the troops were absorbed in trench and other duties, and hired labour could not be had, there existed insuperable difficulties to constructing the huts. When this was Known at home, the Government entered into contracts to provide a large number of wooden buildings cut into planks and complete in fitments, which, with printed instructions and a few sappers conversant with the mode of putting them together, might readily be erected by unskilled workmen. Thirteen sapper carpenters were selected for the service, who, for a time, were stationed at Portsmouth and Southampton ; and after making themselves acquainted with all the details of the structures, embarked, singly or in twos, in some of the vessels Avhich conveyed the prepared timbers to the Crimea. The first parties left about 5 Dec., 1854 ; the last arrived at Balaklava on 22 Feb. following ; and those men were distributed through the camp to aid the building of the huts, which, from the utter failure of the means of transport, and the want of strength in the men to bear them to